DigitalOcean
Under review· 6Cloud infrastructure and developer platform for app deployment
DigitalOcean has 16 plans: paid plans from $0.05. We last read its pricing page on 16 October 2026. The last price change we recorded was on 2 September 2026.
DigitalOcean plans and prices
AI/ML Inference
usage based$0.05
$0.05/M tokens
- overage$0.05($0.05/M tokens)
- AI models for every use case
- Access leading AI models
- Compare cost, speed, and capability
- Deploy with a single API
- No infrastructure management
- Pay only for what you use
GPU Droplets
usage based$1.91
$1.91/GPU/hour (based on multi-month contractual commitment)
- usage based$0.76(On-demand pricing from $0.76/GPU/hour)
- monthly$1.91/mo($1.91/GPU/hour* (based on multi-month contractual commitment))
- overage$0.76(On-demand pricing from $0.76/GPU/hour)
- usage based$1.91(Starting at $1.91 /GPU/hour (multi-month contractual commitment))
- Scalable machines for your AI/ML workloads
- Run training and inference on AI/ML models
- Process large data sets and complex neural networks
- Serve additional use cases like high-performance computing (HPC)
- Simple provisioning interface
- Build, train, and deploy large models
- Scale AI/ML workloads on demand
Droplets
monthly$4/mo
- Highly-efficient virtual machines
- Per-sec billing with 60 sec minimum or $0.01, whichever is higher
- Deploy in seconds
- Scale up on demand
- Run any workload - from mission critical apps to low-traffic sites
Kubernetes
monthly$12/mo
- Simple, managed Kubernetes built for scale
- Free control plane, free bandwidth allowance, and more
- Automate and optimize to peak performance
Functions
monthly$0/mo
- Serverless computing solution
- Focus on building great apps
- Pay for what you use
- Scale automatically
Cloudways Managed Hosting
monthly$11/mo
- Scalable, pay-as-you-go hosting for digital businesses
- Optimized for Wordpress & PHP based apps
- SSD stack with PHP 8 & Redis
- Unlimited apps, Git & staging
Databases
monthly$15/mo
- Fully managed and maintained
- Managed MongoDB, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Caching, Valkey, and OpenSearch
- Worry-free setup, maintenance, and easy migration
- Free daily backups, automated failover, and more!
Spaces
monthly$5/mo
- Simple, scalable object storage
- S3-compatible object storage
- Highly scalable
- Built in CDN
Network File Storage
monthly$0.15/mo
$0.15/per GiB/month (Standard tier)
- monthly$0.15/mo($0.15 /per GiB/month)
- monthly$0.15/mo($0.15/per GiB/month (Standard tier))
- monthly$0.3/mo($0.30/per GiB/month (High performance tier))
- monthly$0.15/mo($0.15/per GiB/mo)
- usage based$0.15(Standard tier: $0.15 per GiB-month)
- usage based$0.3(High performance tier: $0.30 per GiB-month)
- Shared file storage
- Standard tier available — $0.15 per GiB-month
- High performance tier available — $0.30 per GiB-month
- Starting from 50 GiB
- Flat pricing across all supported regions
Load Balancers
monthly$12/mo
- Load balancing, simplified
- Improve availability, performance, and scalability
- Let’s Encrypt and HTTP/3 support
- Compatible with Droplets and DigitalOcean Kubernetes
- Global Load Balancers now available
Support Plans
monthly$0/mo
- Unlimited customized support
- Find answers to common questions, development guidelines written by experts
- Get free email support
- Ideal for those testing ideas and hosting small applications
Virtual Private Cloud
monthly$0/mo
- monthly$40/mo(VPC NAT Gateway: $40.00 per node, includes 100 GiB bandwidth (overage $0.01/GiB))
- Simple, cost effective VPC hosting
- Create unlimited VPCs at no additional cost.
- Ingress data transfer to VPCs is free
- Egress data transfer from VPCs to the internet counts against bandwidth quotas
- Intra-datacenter VPC peering is free.
- Inter-datacenter VPC peering is $0.01/GiB
- VPC NAT Gateway: supports up to 500,000 connections
Uptime Monitoring
monthly$0/mo
- Automated endpoint alerts
- Uptime and latency checks
- Alerts by email and Slack
- One Uptime Check/month included with every account
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
monthly$0/mo
- Stay secure without adding complexity
- Agentless by design
- Prioritized findings
- Guided remediation
- Unified visibility
Action Gateway
usage based$0.1
- Governed access to 16,000+ tools through one managed endpoint
- Connect SaaS apps, APIs, and MCP servers
- Credentials brokered at execution time, never exposed to the model
- Built-in retries, rate limits, and policy controls
- Tool search included at no charge
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime
usage based$0.0535
- Isolated sessions in dedicated Firecracker microVMs
- Pause, resume, checkpoint, and fork sessions
- Bring your own agent as a container template
Price history
Last 10 recorded changes
$1.88→$1.91(+1.6%)
| Date | Plan | Change | Old | New | Δ% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | Action Gateway | New plan | — | $0.1 | — |
| Oct 2, 2026 | DigitalOcean Harness Runtime | New plan | — | $0.0535 | — |
| Sep 3, 2026 | AI/ML Inference | Reclassified | $0.05 | $0.05 | 0.0% |
| Sep 2, 2026 | GPU Droplets | Increase | $1.88 | $1.91 | +1.6% |
| Jul 24, 2026 | AI/ML Inference | New plan | — | $0.05 | — |
| Jul 24, 2026 | GPU Droplets | Reclassified | $1.49 | $1.91 | — |
| Jul 24, 2026 | Cloudways Managed Hosting | New plan | — | $11 | — |
| Jul 24, 2026 | Virtual Private Cloud | New plan | — | $0 | — |
| Jul 24, 2026 | Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) | New plan | — | $0 | — |
| Jul 24, 2026 | Gradient™ AI Platform | Removed | $0.15 | — | — |
Showing the most recent 10 changes. Full history back to 2023 is available through the developer API.
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